2025-04-14 NSF - OpenCI Meeting Agenda & Summary

2025-04-14 NSF - OpenCI Meeting Agenda & Summary

Attendees:

John Towns, Amitava (Amit) Majumdar, Chuck Pavloski, Dina Meek, Lavanya Podila, Cindy Wong, Sharon Geva, Puri Bangalore, Kim Mann Bruch, Shannon Bradley

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Agenda/Notes

  1. Updates from NSF (5 mins)

    1. did see email from John asking about something specific about the PEP

      1. Refer to the website: NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders

      2. Great if he can get that in before the Annual Report

    2. PY4 plans are very important - plan them in a way they can be discussed

      1. Be able to discuss PY4 plans is very important - make sure they are well defined and make sense with the scope - not too vague

        1. make sure there are dates in the PY4 - make sure there is a schedule with dates for looking forward

          1. dating by quarter is fine (like we did last year)

      2. In the review - time for the past is smaller than the discussion for looking forward

    3. Has not seen the supplement yet - Lavanya says it is not submitted yet - there are a few final things we need

      1. they still see the original one

  2. What have we heard from stakeholders? (5 mins)

    1. Seeing a small increase in the number of people who are coming to virtual open office hours for Stephen Deems

      1. Sharon/Puri will be starting to speak on this in their presentations - so we will start to see more people coming as they advertise it

    2. When we talk to people - please let them know that they can put in a ticket for help and set up one on ones

  3. NSF Meeting PEP Milestone Tracking and Follow-up Tasks To Do

  1. Area updates (10+ mins)

    1. ACO (John)

      1. John on travel - unavailable

      2. Implementing SC and WG reports to EC - All six scheduled times are in place for this quarter and will be doing regular reports going forward

    2. Evaluation (Amit)

      1. Dina would like to have a copy of the results from the survey - there is a meeting on Wednesday and will confirm it is available in a good format

    3. Communications (Dina, Kim)

      1. Nothing significant to add (Dina)

    4. Project Office (Lavanya, Shannon)

      1. working on end of year tasks

      2. Placeholders for next quarterly in place

      3. Sent info to agenda planning committee

    5. EAB (Chuck, Cindy)

      1. Next EAB meeting: Cindy working on getting date settled for next EAB virtual meeting in June. Likely June 20th.

        1. June/July EAB availability request sent to EAB, EC, and NSF. Deadline, Monday, April 14 (https://www.when2meet.com/?29726857-yYXPc)

      2. Summary report to be submitted by Wednesday, April 30.

      3. Pending results: 3/18/25 EAB meeting. Deadline to provide feedback Monday, April 21.


Next Meeting: 21st April 2025